Good Benefits, Salary was somewhat above average for industry. A once proud and prosperous brand has been decimated by incompetent leadership

Cons

Diabetes care management, from director and above do not have a clue about how to succeed in the industry. Completely incompetent! Run very much like a high school campus, if your are not one of the "cool kids" you are of no value to leadership. Culturally ... they talk, but do not walk the talk. The division is dead and most everyone of value has been severanced or left the organization. MG was either not made aware of what he inherited, or is complacent and expected to oversee the demise of DC.

Advice to ManagementAdvice

Sell for whatever you can get or withdraw and leave the market ... Roche Diabetes Care is an embracement in the industry. Old technology with no apparent desire to become a leader again. This company has one foot in the grave. It is unfair to allow the employees to linger in your incompetence and indifference.

Career advancement is limited. It is a highly hierarchical company and "who you know" often is more important than what your know. Upper management is a bit detached from working realities, and middle management stymies many opportunities for improvement.

Advice to ManagementAdvice

Find ways to better tap the wealth of creativity and knowledgeat the lower levels of the organization. Understand that there is a lot of "smoke and screens" at the middle management level used to protect the status quo. Note also, being in an FDA-regulated environment does not necessitate the burdensome internal bureaucracy that Roche carries - find ways to cut red tape!

My counterpart that worked for the company contracting us was really great. I was lucky to have a good partner. We had the same goal, make sales. She was very supportive,

Cons

There was no face to face training. It was fine, just different. The parent company treated us like second class citizens. But if you were lucky enough to be paired up with some good parent company counterparts, the experience was great.

The health insurance was just ok. But at least we had health insurance.

Like a lot of PDI contracts we had to use our own cars and the reimbursement was not that great.

The biggest con was we were not hired on to be full-time reps. We worked on a contract for over two years really getting the word out to the HCPs and the company didn't think we were good enough to be part of their actual organization. If they thought there was a big problem, they should have fixed, retrained, and addressed that issue with the currents reps they had. We were very dedicated to moving their sales forward and in the end it was a slap in the face. Of course, there will always be reps that take advantage of the situation. But as a first time contract worker, I still took my sales and job just as seriously as I did when I was a direct hire.

Advice to ManagementAdvice

Value the employees that are dedicated to moving your business forward, contract sales force or direct hires.

Medical Benefits are excellent and a great place to work if you want to have kids because you can get 6 months of leave.

Cons

You can expect long hours with little reward for the extra effort in PD. You might get a lot of additional responsibility but don't expect additional pay. Management (Director and up) will know they have an issue driven by market conditions, but allow the sales force to be punished financially for the issue and also continue delivering the same criticism of performance, without taking any accountability for their own lack of action. Poor communication, poor operational execution by CPS, lack of leadership at the highest levels of the business unit, etc. People are not rewarded with promotions, in fact people leave and experience far better career growth.

Advice to ManagementAdvice

Live your own cultural beliefs! At the very least give people a chance to be heard instead of listening to one person or side of an issue and making decisions. That is called "Build Trust" and "Transparency". Be accountable for your own mistakes.